For me, prizes are just that, prizes. As to what they say...I love the
definition in my dictionary: "Something offered or striven for in
competition or in contests of chance." While I don't know the Brant piece,
I can't say that I have really paid much attention to the
Pulitzer...unless of course, they consider offering one to me.

On the other hand, I find Liebermann's music undistinguished.

Writing that line, and just having read that article on public
broadcasting and its concept of classical music...I guess I find
Liebermann, Torke, Jenkins et al to be some of the NPR Classical
Composers.

There, I have done it, invented a new stylistic category!

Karl